Improvement in vyagon-brakes



PATENT.; ortica 'ERASMUS BENNETT, OFCLARKSVILLE," NEW Yeni;

iM stoven-ENT. FI N-fwAiGO N-'B RAKES,-

' .Specification formi-ng partwof Let-ters Patent No. '451,ixd'ated Al'febrnary IG, 1864.

. jBe it known una Llamamos BENNETT, ef- Clarksville, inv the county of 'Albany and State of 'New York, have invented a new and Vuseful improvement, in theQconstruction of vvag`on-brakes, by means of which said'brakes can be applied to au ordinary polewithout materially changing the construction, whiley at the same time all the moving partsare ac' through whichfaibnl-t passes, which isfrm'ly secured ,to'theouter or fixed hounds. A`

plate is secured to theupperfside of the pole, on which an upright boltis forged. ,Twoarms provided with eyes'it on the upright bolt and' are kept in place bya'nut on the top of same. ch arm Aplays 'freely through an. eye or staple secured to each stationary hound. The outer end of each arm has aneye to receive a side rod, the other end of which is secured 'to the cross brake-bar. The lgreat advantage in this* arrangement is that thearms and staples are all on the upper side of the pole and hounds, and canv be easily taken apart and put together placed underneath,` as inv other arrangements, where they are out of sight, exposed to'clogging'with mud in the joints, and almost iinpossible rto get at when out of order. The brakes or rubbers are of a peculiar construction and areprovided with a flat projection on the back end of each, which forms a very convenient step to getV in .aud out of the wagon,aud also'serves to keep the brake blocks or rubbers in their-proper positions so` as tobear against the wheels when required.

Th'e'hou'nds, which are secured `to the pole,

serve t o strengthen lit materially, and it has no chance to ti p sidewise, as the bearings are so wide. ,An elongated slotr is made inthe pole and sliding hounds, through which the' hounds and pole are' providedrwith'an.-elongated slot inv each-,-

from above instead of being AT and U Adraft-:bolt passes, 'which isviirmlyfsecured `to'the'stationary orixed hounds;

"When the wagon is .not loaded', there is hard-lyany' necessity for the brakes, and, they can be easily prevented from coming in'con tact with the Wheels by means of' an eyebolt or pinv inserted before the. draftpin, there? by preventing the poleand hounds from moving backward, and keepin'g Vthe brakesy orrubbers out of contact with the wheels.' To removethe armsy and side rodsaltogether from the pole,'it is only necessary to takeoff the nut-on the upright'bolt secured to said I have tested my improvement and itworks well, and .can be applied with 'less cost than otherSin use, vas nearly. all the old work in a Wagon, Carr` be used' with advantage.

Having thus set forth the nature of l'my invention,-andto enableothers skilled in' the art to make and use the same, I will now proceed -to describ'e it, and certify that the accom.

panying drawings are a fullv and corect representation of the same, like letters conformi,

ing with'like parts.

Figure vlVrepreserA a perspective viewof a wagon with the brakes or rubbers applied. Fig.V 2is a planof the same. Fig. 3 is an enlarged view o-f the brakes or rubbers pressed against` the wheel.

Afvrepresents the pole; B and C, the sliding` hounds secured one on each sidexof the' same; v.

D andE, the stationary oriixed hounds secured to the axle-tree F in the usual manner;

G, an elongated slot inthe sliding houndKB; H, a corresponding slot in the pole A', I, a

slot in the sliding hound e.v (Not'showninthe drawings.)

J is the draft 4bol-t or piupassing throughv said slots and firmly lsecu red to the stationary,V hounds D and E.

K is a plate bolted tothe upper side of the pole A, and provided with an uprightpin, L, to receive the arms M and N, which pass through staples m n secured to the stationary hunds Dand E, the outer ends of which, O' and P, receive the side rods,'Q and R, lthe other ends being secured to the cross brakebar S, which -carries the brakesor rubbers wheels.

which bear against the forward Z is an eyeboltor pin which is inserted' The sliding hounds aud-polawheu used in -before the draft- 'pin J lthrough the lpole, connection with the arms M N, and rods Q R,

thereby preventing the 'brakes er rubbers Tl Connected with ythe rubbers T U and eyebolt and U from acting. rlhe arms M N-'ean be or piu Z,`al1 arranged and combined as set easily removed by takiugoff the nut on thev forth, and for the purposes speeied.

uprightbolt or-pin. "L lW `aud X are the y f projections forming steis oxl' the rubbers or I I ERASMUS BENNETT brakes T and U. Witnesses: n

What I claim' as my invention, :and for T. S. VAN HEVENBERGH,

which desire to procure Letters latent, is- BARTH. G. HACKETT. 

